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He also injured is hands and torso attempting to protect himself from the violent thugs.

The latest attack comes just days after a day of havoc in nearby Portmarnock when brave neighbours fought off a gang of up to 30 people who threatened to kill a young man and "slash" them.

The young man barricaded himself in the porch of a cocooning elderly couple who feared for their lives as the thugs threatened the man.

An off duty garda and his son were attacked as heroic locals intervened to stop the gang, who had cycled from Darndale to Portmarnock after singling out another youngster on his bike from nearby Clarehall and threatening to kill him.

The off-duty garda and his son were punched while another brave neighbour was bitten by the yobs as gardai swarmed the area.

Local councillor Brian McDonagh has condemned the attacks as "savagery".

He told Dublin Live: "This cannot be allowed to be normalised. The people responsible need to be caught and need to be punished.

"This assault is so serious I'm sure the guards and the courts can and will deal with it.

"I'm concerned that there's a pattern and I would be very anxious that the guards treat this with the utmost seriousness and look to identify who is responsible and get them off the streets as quickly as possible irrespective of their age because that's an extremely serious assault."

The Labour Party rep also appealed for anyone with any information on either attack to contact gardai.

"Out of that group there are probably a number of whom who are horrified by what has happened and they are realising the seriousness of what they've been hanging around the edges of.